· Private foundation
Cla Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $257k
- $10k–50k163 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $624k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NABA INC | $200,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $90,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC | $88,000 |
| BLACK MEN TEACH | $70,000 |
| CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION COLORADO | $66,000 |
| WILDFLYER COFFEE | $60,000 |
| MARKET ENTRY FUND | $50,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE | $44,000 |
| BERLIN COMMUNITY DAY CARE | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES | $36,000 |
| DALLAS EC | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO | $26,000 |
| YWCA SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC | $25,000 |
| DRAKE HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +13%
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS6× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +41%- BMBlack Men Teach2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +12%
- DDigi-Bridgegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +521%
- NANATIONAL ABLE NETWORK INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To educate and inspire young people to succeed in a global economy.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…
We champion the potential of every person to succeed in a rewarding career, while working to create an equitable and inclusive workforce for tomorrow. we do this by providing skill development for in demand jobs, comprehensive supports,…
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northstar Learning Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
401 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 401 of the 480 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Careers in Construction Colorado ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds World Savvy ↗
- Who funds The Training Source Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BUNKER LABS NFP INC ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
- Who funds THE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Wildflyer Coffee ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Charlotte ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SEED SPOT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Pwc Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Walser Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Target Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Rsm US Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cla Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Hudson Community Enterprises Inc — 16% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Macdonald Training Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.